{"id":1150764,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dillon-consulting-ma-and-fpa-analyst","title":"M&A and FP&A Analyst","company":{"id":1124359,"name":"Dillon Consulting","domain":"dillon.ca","url":"https://alion.io/company/dillon-ca","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":70000,"max":105000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":105000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Power BI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"QlikSense","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Tableau","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T17:36:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T22:17:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Overview\nAre you someone with leadership and technical capabilities? Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a trusted partner and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.\nYour Opportunity\nWe are seeking a highly motivated and data-fluent M&A and FP&A Analyst to be a foundational member of our growing Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. Dillon’s FP&A team is focused on transforming business data into strategic insights that empower our leaders to act. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills and a drive to improve current methodologies to help build a scalable and effective FP&A function. This role will be instrumental in implementing new processes, refining existing models, and transitioning the team's focus from data gathering to high-value analysis.\nThis is a full-time, hybrid position requiring a minimum of three days per week in our London office.\nResponsibilities\nMergers & Acquisitions (Full-Cycle Support)\nTarget Evaluation & Valuation: Support the Director of M&A in financial modelling, valuation, and evaluating potential acquisition targets.\nDue Diligence: Assist in the financial and operational due diligence process, identifying risks, synergies, and integration requirements.\nPost-Merger Management & Integration: Play a key role in helping newly acquired companies assimilate into the Dillon culture and track post-merger financial performance.\nReporting & Automation\nAdvance & Stabilize our Reporting Suite: Execute key recurring reporting tasks to ensure business continuity, while simultaneously identifying and building automated solutions to replace them.\nEnhance the \"Single Source of Truth\": Collaborate with our IT Solutions team to streamline data integration across our systems, enhancing the accuracy and scalability of our financial models.\n Systems Evaluation: Support the evaluation, configuration, and testing of new FP&A and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software solutions as the function matures.\nAutomation & Efficiency: Champion a shift in the FP&A teams’s time allocation toward 70% high-value analysis and 30% reporting by automating data integration.\nStrategic Modeling, Forecasting & Analysis\nDriver-Based Forecasting: Build dynamic forecast models that allow us to stress-test future scenarios.\nValue-add Analysis: Analyze complex intersections of data to uncover profitability insights that aren't visible in standard reports.\nPerformance Management & Analysis: Support budgeting and target-setting, while conducting variance analysis that moves beyond simple actuals vs. budget comparisons to provide actionable operational context.\nBusiness Partnership\nEmpower Leaders: Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights for non-finance business leaders. \nFinancial Literacy: Support the Manager in training non-finance stakeholders on how to interpret new reports and leverage FP&A insights for decision-making.\nQualifications\nUndergraduate degree in Business, Accounting, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.\n3-6 years in a data-heavy analytical role within Finance or FP&A.\nDemonstrates a solid grasp of core financial concepts.\nBring a proactive approach to leveraging AI and automation to solve complex financial problems and modernize workflows.\nExperience\nComfortable working with large, complex datasets and can conceptualize multidimensional data structures. You enjoy both building new pipelines and optimizing existing logic.\nExperience building and maintaining data models and dashboards in Qlik Sense, Power BI, or Tableau.\nExperience working with ERPs and financial systems, with an interest in system implementations and automated data integration.\nProven proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation is considered an asset.\nExperience challenging existing processes to drive efficiency and utility.\nExperience working in and contributing to a Continuous Improvement-focused environment\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to present complex financial information clearly and concisely.\nCompensation\n$70,000 - $105,000\nDillon is including the salary range that we in good faith believe may offer for this position. It will be dependent on the successful applicant’s education, experience, and skills, in addition to internal equity and geographic region. Dillon reserves the right to pay outside of the posted range, contingent on factors unrelated to an applicant’s gender or other status protected by provincial and/or federal law.\nWhy choose Dillon\nDillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.\nWe live our core values:\nAchievement: do the work to hit the target;\nContinuous Development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;\nCreativity: discover new possibilities;\nCourage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;\nInclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences;\nReliability: words result in actions that build trust.\nIn addition, we offer:\nEmployee share purchase plan\nDillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.\nA competitive compensation package\nComprehensive health benefits\nGenerous retirement savings plan\nStudent loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions\nFlexible work hours and hybrid working options\nDillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and hybrid work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life. \nLearning and Development opportunities\nAs a knowledge-based business, the organic growth of our knowledge and skills occur through our work performance and roles. The creation and sharing of knowledge allows us to take local knowledge to scale, capture lessons learned through experience, and continuously improve service delivery. The development of self and others is an evident and measured core behaviour within our organization\nWe use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.\nFocus on Innovation\nThe ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities.\nEmployee and Family Assistance program\nA variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.\nGoodlife Fitness Corporate Membership\nOur employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.\n\nWellness SubsidyOur employees can take advantage of a wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes and dance classes.\n\nAbout Dillon\nDillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science, and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 25 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.\nNow operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for 19 years in a row and has the distinction of being a Platinum Club member in this program.\nHealth & Safety at Dillon\nProspective employees are expected to fully align with Dillon's core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active, ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform, and the active, ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.\nEmployment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon\nDillon is committed to employment equity and an inclusive, diverse workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities. If you require accommodation during the interview process, please let us know. We look forward to hearing from you.\nTechnology enablement and the use of AI at Dillon\nWe invest in modern technologies to enable continuous improvement across the organization. Please be advised that Dillon Consulting utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports this process, all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. 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